Showing posts with label CACI Scotland's census. Show all posts
Showing posts with label CACI Scotland's census. Show all posts

Friday 21 September 2012

BARBARA DOWLING'S TRIAL.



A call for solidarity for a very brave and principled woman. 

Barbara Dowling's census trial re-scheduled for 25 September

     Barbara Dowling will be on trial in Glasgow on Tuesday for allegedly refusing to aid and abet torture by cooperating with Scotland's census.

10am Tuesday 25 September at Glasgow Sheriff Court.
Map http://www.scotcourts.gov.uk/locations/index.asp?crt=glw&val=map
     
      Please come along to support Barbara in court. If other commitments prevent you from staying for the duration of the trial, please come along *before* 10am to show your support outside the court - even if it's only for a few minutes.
         "As everyone knows, soldiers and civilian contractors at the Abu Ghraib prison committed criminal offenses," says New York Times editor, Andrew Rosenthal. So why have no Abu Ghraib contractors faced prosecution? And why is a Glasgow woman facing criminal charges for objecting to the involvement of Abu Ghraib contractor CACI in Scotland’s census?
        Barbara Dowling will be tried in Glasgow Sheriff Court on Tuesday 25 September, accused of committing a criminal offence under the Census Act 1920. She allegedly refused to fully complete her census form last year in protest at the involvement in Scotland’s census of a British subsidiary of US defence contractor CACI International.

Read the full article
http://news.ethicalcensus.org.uk/2012/is-objecting-to-torture-a-crime/#more-319

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